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Join us for Thursday's Classified Session and the final day of the 2009 Convention & Symposium in Washington, DC. We'll be back in next week's eCrow.

Last year this was a very successful conference with direct impact on Navy programs. Register now so you don't miss your chance to take part in the discussions! The Secret/US only conference will be held at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base.

Register now for the Secret/US only conference at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, CA.

The Operationalizing Intelligence in Electronic Warfare for the 21st Century conference will be held at the NASIC conference facility, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, December 1-2. Register now for this Secret/US only conference.

The unclassified Worldwide EW Infrastructure Conference has been moved to December 1-3 at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta. Don't miss an agenda that includes sustainment, development interoperability/testing, training and transformation.

President Obama has, as expected, nominated National Security Agency director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander to be promoted to the rank of general and assigned as commander of the new United States Cyber Command. (Information Week)

The US military already uses a fleet of unmanned spy blimps to keep tabs on would-be enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, the Navy wants to upgrade the airships' sight and hearing, as part of its push for "wide area persistent surveillance." (Wired)

The way the Ministry of Defence buys equipment is "unaffordable," with an estimated budget overrun of £35bn, a report has said. The review, commissioned by the MOD, said too many types of equipment were being ordered for too large a range of tasks at too high a specification. (BBC)

SRC, Inc.

Industry News
The Australian Chapter of the AOC will host its 2010 symposium, "Systemic Electronic Attack: The Future is Now," April 12-13 in Adelaide, Australia.

AOC has unveiled the following conferences for late 2009 and 2010. Plan now to attend:

Cyber and Spectrum Integration:
February 23-25, Chantilly, VA
InfowarCon 2010: May 12-13, Washington, DC
AOC/Shephard EW 2010: May 11-12, Berlin, Germany
Passive Covert Radar Conference: July 13-15, Verona, NY

Visit www.crows.org to register and for more information.

The October issue of JED is now available on-line. Your www.crows.org username and password is needed for entry, or use this courtesy login - username: OctJED, password: crows10.

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Calendar of Events
Washington, DC

Washington, DC

Washington, DC

DE&S Abbey Wood
Bristol, UK

Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, VA

Alexandria, VA
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Monterey, CA
(in conjunction with LPI Conference)

Monterey, CA
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NASIC
Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH
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Atlanta, GA
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Alexandria, VA

Anritsu Company

Agilent Technologies

KOR Electronics

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